P.K. Ghosh is a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation. He is the former co-chair and India representative to two successive Council for Security Co-operation in the Asia Pacific International Study Groups on Maritime Security. He was also the convenor of the first meeting of the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium.

Avery Goldstein is David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations, Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Christopher Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Edmund Terence Gomez is Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya, and the author of a number of books on the politics and economy of Malaysia and the region. An earlier version of this article appeared originally in New Mandala on March 12, 2019, accessible at www.newmandala.org/business-as-usual-regime-change-and-glcs-in-malaysia.